Software Engineer (L09)

Job Description:

Role Title: Software Engineer (L09)

Company Overview:

Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

• We have recently been ranked #2 among India’s Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India’s Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.

• Synchrony celebrates ~51% women diversity, 105+ people with disabilities, and ~50 veterans and veteran family members.

• We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.

• We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles.

Organizational Overview:

This role will be part of the Data Architecture & Analytics group part of CTO organization.

• The API Service team specializes in provisioning REST APIs for real time interactions with Enterprise Data Lake supporting business decision-making by designing and delivering resilient, scalable, secure and low latency solutions using cutting edge tools and cloud technologies.

• The team leverages Java Spring Boot Microservice architecture with built-in advanced solutions to accomplish stability while maintaining performance across multiple platforms that provide actionable insights across various business functions.

• Through collaboration with cross-functional teams, the API team ensures seamless deployment and optimization of real time solutions in the Cloud Foundry.

Role Summary/Purpose:

We are looking for an API Developer to design and develop consumer-centric low latency scalable cloud native applications leveraging Spring & Cloud technologies for our Enterprise Data Lake initiative.  This high visibility, fast-paced key initiative will integrate data across internal and external sources, provide analytical insights and integrate with our critical systems.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop containerized microservices for cloud native applications using Spring framework

• Develop low latency Java Springboot APIs and deploy on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) in a complex data management environment using CI/CD pipelines.

• Develop integration of Kakfa, Hbase, Redshift, MySQL and Hive databases

• Research caching techniques and develop solutions for data caches such as Gemfire, Redis

• Develop and deploy code on on-prem and on AWS

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Experience with deployment of microservice architecture on Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform

• Experience with public cloud computing platforms such as AWS

• Experience integrating with load balancers and Protegrity platform for tokenization

• Experience with Agile project management methods and practices.

• Demonstrated excellent planning and organizational skills

• Collaborate across teams of internal and external technical staff, business analysts, software support and operations staff

• Able to work effectively with multiple teams and stakeholders

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

• Good to have experience working in Financial Industry or Credit processing experience. 

• Willing to stay abreast of the latest developments in technology

• Experience with working on a geographically distributed team managing onshore/offshore resources with shifting priorities. 

Eligibility Criteria:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (such as Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics) with minimum 2 years of professional Java development experience; or lieu of a degree with 4 years of professional development (Java/J2EE) experience.

• Minimum 2 years of in-depth experience in design, and development using J2EE/Eclipse, Spring Boot, REST Services in complex large scale environments

• Minimum 1 year of experience using in memory data grid technology such as GemFire, Redis, Hazelcast

• Minimum 1 year of experience integration with middleware platforms such as IBM WebSphere, Tibco, Oracle ESB

• Minimum 1 year of experience integration with Hadoop/Hive, SQL and HBase/NoSQL data stores like Cassandra and MongoDB

Work Timings: 3 PM to 12 AM IST

This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time – 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details.

For Internal Applicants:

• Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying

• Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday

• Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)

• Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, PIP)

• L4 to L7 Employees who have completed 12 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

• L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

• L04+ Employees can apply

Grade/Level: 09

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